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ANDRE AND HIS BALLOON
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ANDRE AND HIS BALLOON

by Lachambre, Henri and Alexis Machuron

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Small octavo (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches) Westminster, England: Archibald Constable & Co., 1898. Original blue cloth over boards. 306 pages plus publisher's advertisements, "with coloured frontispiece and forty-four full page illustrations from photographs," good condition, original publisher's binding with worn spine, title in gilt, and gold embossed representation of a balloon in flight, on front cover.

The author " . . . was a Swedish engineer, physicist, aeronaut and polar explorer who died while leading an attempt to reach the Geographic North Pole by hydrogen balloon."
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CAMPING IN COLORADO
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CAMPING IN COLORADO: "With Suggestions to Gold-Seekers, Tourists and Invalids"

by Gordon, S. Anna

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Small octavo (7 5/8 by 5 1/4 inches) New York: W. B. Smith & Co., 1882. Second Edition 201 pages + 8 pages of publisher's ads, dark red hardcover, cloth binding, with ornamental rules framing the title, centered in gilt on front cover beneath a gilt decoration of a riverside camping scene, ornamental rules at top and bottom of covers, and on spine. Very good condition (minor shelf wear to back cover, and along hinges; not affecting contents or overall good condition of the book).

"It has been the intention of the author of this volume to briefly portray the real features of a journey by rail over the great American Plains into the popular and more inviting resorts of the Rocky Mountains.""It has been a careful endeavor to make it attractive with incident of both journey and camp; and instructive and suggestive, by imparting such knowledge as it was her opportunity to gain from experience, observation, or otherwise; and to make it desirable by noting those points of interest that might hereafter be of… Read More
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CRUISES IN THE BERING SEA
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CRUISES IN THE BERING SEA: Being Records of Further Sport and Travel

by Niedieck, Paul (Translated From The Original German by R. A. Ploetz, M. A.

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Small quarto (9 1/2 by 6 1/2 inches) London: Rowland Ward, Limited, 1909. First Edition. xv, 252 + [4] pages of Publisher's Advertisements, "With 73 Full-Page Plates (on unnumbered leaves), a Map, and 56 Illustrations in the Text, Reproduced From Original Photographs."

The colored map is folded into a pocket attached to the rear pastedown. Original gray cloth binding with title and author on upper cover, and in gilt on spine; patterned end papers, appendix, and index. Very good condition (small blemish on lower margin of front pastedown, and front fly leaf, minimal shelf wear; none affecting contents).

A hunting expedition to Siberia and Alaska, originating in Japan, with ethnological observations on indigenous people, and descriptions of mining, and of the fisheries.

The Appendix is a "Synopsis of the Animals Collected by the Author During His Expedition" (that included mammals, birds, and invertebrates).
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FISHING IN THE OLYMPICS
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FISHING IN THE OLYMPICS: Salmon, Trout, Mud Shark, Bull Heads, J. W. Pike, Halibut, Dollies, Whale and Kippered Herrings

by Webster, E. B.

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Octavo (8 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches) Port Angeles, Washington: The Evening News Inc., 1923. First Edition. 226 [1] pages illustrated with black and white sketches by Annette Swan, and a few black and white photos; printed on brown paper, good condition (mild evidence of old moisture to lower border of front cover, and foredge, not affecting contents) small faint stamp of a long-gone book store on lower front pastedown, contents include "Books You'd Love to Read," brown cloth binding with vignette of a fisherman sitting on an outcrop above a lake looking down through a telescope.

A collection of fish stories by an author who was a naturalist; originally, with a specialty in ornithology.
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THE GOLD FISH OF GRAN CHIMU
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THE GOLD FISH OF GRAN CHIMU

by Lummis, Charles F. (Inscribed by Lummis, and dated "Oct. 17, '96" on front fly leaf)

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18 mo. (6 5/8 by 4 1/4 inches) Boston and New York: Lamson, Wolffe, and Company, 1896. First American Edition. Hardcover, cloth. 126 pages, with black and white illustrations by Henry Sandham, R.C.A. based on photographs made by Lummis; very good condition, decorative cloth binding, title and author in gilt on upper front cover next to a representation of a South American idol. Title and author in gilt on spine; top edge gilt. One very small 1/8 inch area of minor wear to lower spine, not affecting contents.

Stories about adventures in Peru, and " . . . attempts to frustrate archaeological investigations . . . . "
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THE YOSEMITE GUIDE-BOOK:
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THE YOSEMITE GUIDE-BOOK: A Description of the Yosemite Valley and the Adjacent Region of the Sierra Nevada, and of the Big Trees of California,

by Whitney, J. D.

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Octavo (9 1/4 x 7 inches) Cambridge: Welch, Bigelow, & Co.: Published by Authority of the Legislature, 1870. First Trade Edition, Second Printing. 155 pages, illustrated with engraved cuts of scenery throughout the text, and eight full page engraved plates with protective tissue guards; maps in pockets missing.

Original green cloth trade binding, decorated with a map of the Sierra and surrounding country stamped in gilt on the front cover; and similarly, a logo of the Geological Survey team with their equipment stamped in gilt on the back cover; title in gilt on spine.

Good condition, showing the results of being carried in a pocket or ruck sack (the covers and corners of the fragile binding show some wear; lower right corner of front cover appears to have been bent). Inscription of previous owner dated "July 4, 1889, (In camp under the Royal Arches, Yosemite)" on front fly leaf, light pencil notation on a few pages not affecting text or illustrations, contents clean and intact; ticket of the… Read More
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